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I hate it. Its time consuming and I usually mess something up somewhere along the way and have to spend time re-checking everything.

Does anyone here know of any tools, websites, applications for quickly and easily creating and dropping a simple form onto a static html page? Obv the form needs to send an email on submit as well... and yes, I would love to use wordpress but can't use it for this particular project.

Anyway, off to build this crappy form out by hand, let me know if you could save me any time in the future, thanks
 


blehhhhhh, if i have a working template ur right, its really easy.

But something is wrong with my .asp action page....when I "submit" the form, it brings up my action "thank you" page, but....instead of just showing the words "Thank You"....its showing all the code from my action page. ...example:


Code: 
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%
'First lets Dim all the variables we need
Dim Contactfirstname, Contactlastname, Contactcompanyname, Contactcity, Contactstate, Contactzip, Contactphone, Contactemail, MyBody, MyMail

'Now lets get some values for the variables from the form
Contactname = Request.Form("firstname")
Contactlastname = Request.Form("lastname")
Contactcompanyname = Request.Form("companyname")
Contactcity = Request.Form("city")
Contactstate = Request.Form("state")
Contactzip = Request.Form("zip")
Contactphone = Request.Form("phone")
Contactemail = Request.Form("email")

'Now lets build the body of the email from the data in the form
MyBody = "First Name: "& Contactfirstname & vbcrlf
MyBody = MyBody & "Last Name: "& Contactlastname & vbcrlf
MyBody = MyBody & "Company Name: "& Contactcompanyname & vbcrlf
MyBody = MyBody & "City: "& Contactcity & vbcrlf
MyBody = MyBody & "State: "& Contactstate & vbcrlf
MyBody = MyBody & "Zip: "& Contactzip & vbcrlf
MyBody = MyBody & "Phone: "& Contactphone & vbcrlf
MyBody = MyBody & "Email: "& Contactemail & vbcrlf



'Now lets put the variables and other information we need into the mailing script 
Set MyMail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
MyMail.From = "edit@edit.com"
MyMail.To = "edit@edit.com"
MyMail.Bcc = "edit@edit.com"
MyMail.Subject = "Contact Us Form from edit.com"
MyMail.TextBody = MyBody
MyMail.Send
Set MyMail = nothing
%> 
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>


</head>

<body>
Thank You!
</body>
</html>



thats literally what comes up, I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong with the doctype...but not sure?
 
that's probably it. I randomly checked it on two diff servers w/o really spending the time to look into them.. maybe third time is a charm lol
 
Seriously? You can't write a fucking form? It's so fucking simple if you spent a half hour just studying how to do it.

Don't settle for pre-built shit.
 
Rage9 said:
Seriously? You can't write a fucking form? It's so fucking simple if you spent a half hour just studying how to do it.

Don't settle for pre-built shit.
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Some of those pre-built places kick out some really nice looking forms though. Making a form is easy - making it look nice is harder and requires you have a handle on css, design, programming language, and html.

It might not make sense for him.

To do some of those effects would take him learning javascript, or one of the libraries like scriptaculous.

Still you should learn to do all this shit. Don't care if you outsource it, use a third party app, or whatever. You still need to know how stuff operates under the hood.

Otherwise your like a man afraid to change his car's oil.
 
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Rage9 said:
Seriously? You can't write a fucking form? It's so fucking simple if you spent a half hour just studying how to do it.

Don't settle for pre-built shit.
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lol @ your username.

No where did I say I couldn't write a form either. I said they fucking suck, and was looking at ways to save time, so rage elsewhere you worthless fuck.
 
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